Building Coalitions: Turf Issues

JACK: A System for Building Holonic Coalitions

Coalitions between military and non-government organisations to manage operations other than war (OOTW), e.g. earthquake evacuations or food distribution to refugees require sophisticated knowledge management, decentralised control, and the ability to conduct flexible negotiations. Holonic systems are a research topic well suited to these requirements as they treat each organisation as an auton...

Building allies coalitions: Why formation matters.

This article describes how formation of the Allies Against Asthma coalitions was influenced by community context, history, leadership, membership, structure, processes, and other factors. Based on member surveys, key informant interviews, and self-assessment tools, results indicate that three coalitions developed from existing coalitions, and four formed in response to funding. The coalitions t...

Surf and Turf: issues in the development of academie services

Building successful coalitions to promote advance care planning.

This qualitative study explored the challenges and successes of an advance care planning (ACP) coalition formed at the University of Wisconsin called Life Planning 2000. Data were obtained from key informant interviews (n = 24) and grounded theory. Major themes included commitment (the need for leadership, recruitment of key persons, and funding); cohesiveness (disparate groups collaborating to...

ASyMTRe: Building Coalitions for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams

This dissertation addresses the problem of synthesizing task solution strategies for a heterogeneous robot team to accomplish multi-robot tasks by sharing sensory and computational resources. The approach I developed is called ASyMTRe, which stands for Automated Synthesis of Multi-robot Task solutions through software Reconfiguration, pronounced “Asymmetry”. When dealing with heterogeneous team...